damerval ward (2 Ergebnisse)

Iowa City, Athens Press, published by the University, s.d. (1923) ; in-8, XXIII pp. + 247 ff. + 11 pp. d'index, pleine percaline bleue de l'éditeur, dos lisse, titre estampé à froid sur le plat supérieur. Réimpression d'une édition du début du XVIe siècle conservée à la Bibliothèque Nationale (Rés. Ye 43). Les commentaires de Charles Frederick Ward sont en anglais. Avec un envoi autographe signé de ce dernier à l'ambassadeur de France aux États-Unis, Jules Jusserand. 1923.

XXIII, 2x 247 p. (each spread is counted as one), p. 248-259 (Appendix), with 3 illus., Gr.-8°, Priv. marbled Halfleather with gilt Spine (= University of Iowa Studies. Humanistic studies; Volume II, Number 2. Editor: Franklin H. Potter). - Preface and introduction (XXIII p.) in English! The reprinted poem itself in French. - In 1508 Eloy d'Amerval, a French choirmaster and composer, published this poem titled "Le livre de la deablerie", which is a dialogue between Satan and Lucifer. "Sathan, at the request of his master, reveals numerous details on the way in which people lived at the end of the Middle Ages: their work and their leisure activities, their sins and their good deeds. With its humour and richness of language, the dialogue between the devils is in the best tradition of the 'Rhetoriqueurs' and Francois Villon. Furthermore, as an historical document, it bears witness to the medieval conception of Hell and the representatives of Good and Evil." (Elyse Dupras: Le livre de la deablerie d'Eloy d'Amerval; Abstract shortened by UMI) - Little knocked and rubbed; inside little sticker by "Libraire des Sciences Occultes, W. N. Schors"; title a bit sunned; few pages slightly spotted; otherwise a good copy.